The Daily Evergreen
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The Daily Evergreen is a student-edited newspaper and Web site at Washington State University.
The 12,000-circulation newspaper is distributed weekdays throughout the academic year, and weekly in the summer. Students of all majors and interests are hired to write stories, take photographs, make graphics, sell advertising, and edit. Leadership positions abound with dozens of student manager positions, assisted by professional advisers who have decades of newspaper experience behind them. The Daily Evergreen is read by more than 83 percent of students, more than half the faculty, and also is distributed throughout Pullman and Moscow.
[edit] History
The Washington State University newspaper was first published in 1895.
Sections within the Evergreen include News, Sports, Opinion, Life, and MiX, a Friday entertainment insert.
Position duites vary with each section, and the editor positions roll over each semester. Editors-in-Chief are elected by the Student Publications Board. The editor-elect is then in charge of selecting the remaining staff positions through application submissions.
The News editor is in charge of tracking news around the community and campus, and assigning daily stories to writers. All stories are read through and editing by the news editor, who also makes the judgments about when and where stories should run in each edition. These decisions are discussed by the entire staff at budget meetings before production begins each night.
The Opinion editor recruits, edits and organizes the opinion columnists for the paper. Weekly student columnists submit columns through the story filing online system JetSet, which are then picked up and editing by the Opinion editor. Twice weekly, the Opinion editor meets with the rest of the Editorial Board to discussion topics for the staff editorials. In most cases, the Opinion editor is in charge of writing and editing the staff editorial, with approval from the rest of the Board. Each night, the Opinion editor also lays out the Opinion page, writing headlines and formatting the structure of the columns, letters to the editor and staff editorials.
The copy desk, made up of 2-3 copy editors, is in charge of laying out news section and wire pages. The pages are assigned to each editor at the daily budget meeting, where story placement and format is discussed. Copy editors must be proficient in page design programs, and be familiar with the newspaper's design philosophy. They must edit stories on the page, and write headlines and summary graphs for each story.
The Life section editor is responsible for coordinating and recruiting writers and columnists to contribute to the section each day, editing stories, planning art and laying out the Life page each night. The Life editor, as with other section editors, uploads their stories to The Daily Evergreen’s Web site each night.
The Sports section editor is also responsible for coordinating and recruiting writers and columnists, arranging for art, editing stories, and layout each night. The editor covers all Cougar sports, and some WSU club sports. Sports press conferences and game tapes are posted on The Daily Evergreen multimedia Web site.
The Multimedia editor coordinates photographers and videographers to provide The Daily Evergreen with art and online content each day. The editor works up photos for each section and also for news wire pages. Video features, slideshows and podcasts are uploaded onto the The Daily Evergreen multimedia Web site. These videos and slideshows are edited and compiled by the editor.
